Condé Nast - 1792 Exchange

Corprate Bias Ratings

Risk Level:

High Risk

Summary:

Conde Nast, the media conglomerate comprising Vogue, Vanity Fair, GQ, and other media publications, covers employees travel expenses to get an abortion. Teen Vogue fired an editor for tweets she had posted 10 years before. Conde Nast does not provide viewpoint protections for its employees and discriminates against religious organizations in its charitable giving. Conde Nast mandates unconscious bias trainings for its employees. Its CEO signed the CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion pledge and CEOs for Gun Safety. For these reasons, Conde Nast receives a High Risk rating.

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Risk Level

Rationale

Corporate Weaponization

Criteria

Has denied service to customers, suppliers, or vendors due to their political views or religious beliefs OR corporately boycotts, divests, or sanctions regions, people groups, or industries.

Risk Level

Rationale

Teen Vogue fired an employee shortly after her promotion to editor after colleagues complained about inappropriate tweets she published 10 years prior, when she was a teenager (1). Conde Nast vets vendors according to their LGBTQ anti-discrimination policy (2).

Criteria

Charitable giving (including employee matching programs) policies or practices discriminate against charitable organizations based on views or religious beliefs.

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Rationale

Conde Nast uses its GlobalGiving program as a means to distribute corporate donations (1). “GlobalGiving will not support evangelism or proselytizing, programs that require exposure, adherence to, or conversion to religious doctrine, or activities that promote a particular faith-based belief” (2).

Criteria

Employment policies fail to protect against discrimination based on political affiliation/views and/or religion.

Risk Level

Rationale

Conde Nast does not provide viewpoint protections for its employees (1).

Corporate Governance and Public Policy

Criteria

Uses corporate reputation to support ideological causes and/or organizations hostile to freedom of expression.

Risk Level

Rationale

Conde Nast requires all employees to participate in unconscious bias trainings (1). Conde Nast’s CEO signed the CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion pledge, which includes a commitment to promote DEI through bias education training in the workplace (2). Conde Nast’s CEO Roger Lynch signed the CEOs For Gun Safety (3). Lindsay Peoples Wagner, the editor and chief of Teen Vogue, founded the “The Black in Fashion Council” (4). Vogue committed to the 15% pledge, vowing to work with more Black artists (5). Conde Nast, Traveler, and GQ have multiple articles promoting Pride Month and LGBTQ spotlights (6)(7)(8).

Criteria

Uses corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.

Risk Level

Rationale

Conde Nast covers travel and lodging expenses for employees to receive abortions out of state (1). The company has pledged $1,000,000 in advertising to “non-profit organizations combating racial injustices” (2). Traveler, GQ, and Vogue have all pushed readers to donate to LGBTQ organizations and organizations such as BLM (3)(4)(5).

Criteria

Uses corporate political contributions for ideological, non-business purposes.

Risk Level

N/A

Rationale

Conde Nast does not operate a PAC at this time (1).

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September 14, 2023

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